New York City

New York City’s ultra-rich started the week with a reprieve from having to prove residency to avoid a pied-à-terre tax. But as the week ends, the reprieve itself proved fleeting. A state appeals judge yanked back the roadblock on Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s tax plan Thursday afternoon in a Staten Island…

Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty Friday in federal court to stalking charges tied to the 2024 broad daylight killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City.Why it matters: Mangione's lawyers are now using Friday's federal plea to request that all but one separate state charge be dismissed.They claimed double…

Not long after moving to New York in 2015, Melissa Rich got a job as a tour guide for the Sex and the City bus tour. She spent about 8 years taking tourists through The Plaza hotel and through other key locations. “It always surprised me how much people loved…

Luigi Mangione pleads guilty on federal charges - key points at a glance Luigi Mangione has pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges in the 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, telling the judge: “I shot Mr Thompson in Manhattan and he died.” Mangione said that “after years of enduring…

The effort to relitigate the social and political earthquake of 2020 is undergoing yet another hopefully brief revival. Back in May, New York City Councilmember Chi Ossé quipped on X: “Woke 1 was crazyyyy.” Last Sunday, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez repeated Ossé ’s maybe-joking comment on ABC’s This Week, in seeming…

People stand in the middle of 42nd Street in Times Square for the first Manhattanhenge of 2026 in New York City, on May 28, 2026. "Manhattanhenge," coined by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, is a phenomenon where the sun perfectly aligns with Manhattan's street grid, allowing it to be seen directly…

New York City is full of undiscovered animal species. This summer, we’ll be looking for them. May 28, 2026, 10:00 AM UTC Benji Jones is a senior environmental correspondent at Vox, covering biodiversity loss and climate change. Before joining Vox, he was a senior energy reporter at Business Insider. Benji…

An article from In its first-quarter financial update, the New York City-based contractor, the industry’s largest by revenue, said it has already won more megaprojects this year than in all of 2025. Published May 27, 2026 The IAD-06 Data Center in Frederick, Md. Turner topped out the facility in March.…

Zohran Mamdani ran for mayor on one promise: make New York City affordable again. This week, he moved to further dismantle the rules New York spent decades erecting to prevent residential density. Mamdani released a 10-year housing plan pledging to build 200,000 new affordable homes while preserving 200,000 more. “These…

BRONX, NY – May 22, 2026 – Kerner Law Group, P.C ., a premier personal injury law firm serving the Bronx and greater New York City area since 1997, continues to strengthen its commitment to providing exceptional legal representation to injury victims throughout the community. With deep roots in the…